Yamafuji
메이지 시대를 배경으로 한 멜로 드라마이다. 의지할 데 없는 유랑극단의 아름다운 가수 우타는 관대한 상인에 집에 기거하게 되지만 그녀를 바라보는 주위의 시선은 따갑기만 하다. 그가 갑자기 큰 빚을 남기고 세상을 뜨자 장사 경험이 전혀 없는 아들이 가업을 물려받게 된다. 그러나 우타는 그에게 학업을 마칠 것을 권하고 대신 사업을 도맡게 된다.
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.
Kōhei Handa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.
Sonshichi Kageyama / President / Reiko's father
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
Omiya's father
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser.
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted. (British Film Institute)
